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Traditionally when you receive footage to key, it is shot against a green screen. When selecting which color will work to pull the key, the best color to use is the color the footage is shot against. How do you choose that color? Author Luisa Winters walks you through how to select the screen color to create a matte in Adobe After Effects.

- Now we get into the actual process of keying.…In this title, I will be using only green screen…as it is by far the most popular color in video.…However, if you're using a different color,…go ahead and follow the instructions anyway…but customize them to your color instead.…When selecting which color will serve to pull the key,…the screen color is by far the most important step.…Here is where you tell the effect…which color it needs to make invisible.…Selecting this color will make a matte…and despill the foreground.…

In many cases if the shoot went right,…this is all you need to do.…Let's try it.…Let's go ahead and open…composition two-point-one screen color.…In here, you're going to see that we have…two movies in the composition.…We make this a little bit wider so you can read it.…It's green screen one and green screen two.…Let's go ahead and add Keylight to green screen one.…For that we go to the effect panel.…Effect: Keying: Keylight.…

And we are on version one-point-two.…As soon as you add the effect, you're gonna see…

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10/11/2016

Keylight is a powerful keyer turned After Effects plugin. It was developed for use in features films and is now available with every copy of After Effects. In this course, Luisa Winters helps you understand what keying is, how Keylight works, and how to get the best green-screen footage from your shoot while in production. Then she demonstrates basic keying and techniques for refining mattes, using masks, and correcting color. Use these tips to create your own amazing composites in After Effects. It all starts with a great key!